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RESTIVAL OF BRITAIN 1952

NEW ECONOMICAL VERSION

Pavilion

INZINZINZIN

DIRECTOR BARRY (To the Press); "WEVE NOW CUT EXPENSES DOWNTO 25 QUID- AND WE HOPE TO KNOCK OFF ANOTHER 10 BY NOT HAVING GATES SO THAT VISITORS CAN'T GET IN.”

World Copyright Dy arrangemani with Evening Standard

You Pay Your Ponny And Take Your Choice:

New Era Of The Slot Machine

NEW era of coln-in- beef and two veg., brend tho-slot machine trad. and cheese, ice-cream aid ing and recreation is coffee.

dawning in Britain now Shoppers who

1

are not too

that certain materials for choosy will be able to buy the manufacture of new shirts, ties, handkerchiefs, books models are becoming unres- now models, or watch a minia- and silk stockings from the tricted.

ture cinema show

at installa- tions in cafes, saloons and travel Not only -are- firms at termini. present bually engaged on renovating machines which THERE are machines yielding havé stood idle for 10 years -threatening lotters to cond hoping for good dividends, to creditors, accident insurance but they are lookingTor- policies valid for. 24 hours, and ward to richer rewards intelligence tests which give on

Intelligence quota based when new models become answers to questions." available such as those now

The automatic 'weighing popular in America, where

machine still holds unfailing almost anything can be popularity. The first to appear bought on a nickel-in-the- at any seaside resort was Biot baals, including roast stalled at Shanklin Indo of

HUSH! NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THE BILL

CHARLES WINTOUR, in his second article on Herbort Morrison's "multi- million-pound baby,” adds up the cost ·

for the taxpayer.

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VERY large Inter- 7-By waterbus: A plan is for conveying national Exhibition being studied

about 4,000 visitors an hour to held in the last 50 the exhibition by waterbuses. years, almost without ex- (Cost of landing stages and ception, has run at a loss, plers unknown.) There is no reason to believe How much of these expenses that the Festival of Britain, will be met by the ratepayers, by ducking the name of how much by the taxpayers, international exhibition, will

by the Transport prove an exception.

Detailed estimales

how much Commission?

for the The principle is that if the Festival will be presented to work is a permanent improve- Parliament next session. Mean- ment the authority concerned while it is necessary to con- will get no special grants. struct the Festival Budget from the few hints and clues which have so far been dropped.

What are the liabilities of the London ratepayer? No one will

heavily for pay moro Festival than the citizens of this capital,

Thus the Transport Commls- Parliament has already passed slon are compelled to undertake the Festival of Britain (Public both alterations and new con- Works) Act

which ztruction

They would Since the

average daily never have considered under- attendance has been estimated taking at the present ilme. by the Festival authorities at

grant. about 50,000, rising to 100,000 at. But they will get no week-ends and Bank Holidays, The same applies to the LCC. the works required are both Most of

complicated theso extensive and expensive.

roundabouts and piers may be said to have some sort of ure

fact,

no fewer than seven in the future, although in the LCC of the present state approaches to the Exhibi- P

finances. no one would have are being builf, all of

Cuggested putting them into which will cost a lot of money, practice for 50 years or more.

But they get no special grant.

Only where expenditure on part of the project is not of "permanent advantage to the body concerned" will the cost the be met from public funds (1.c.. by the taxpayer generally).

tion

Here is the list:

IN THE RED

Nearly all big exhibitions love money. Here are some notable examples:

WEMBLEY

NEW YORK

Exhibition

· Attendanca

1851 LONDON 1900 PARIS

1924 WEMBLEY

1937 PARIS

1918. GLASGOW

1939 NEW YORK

195) LONDON

Cost .6,039,195 £292,794 39,000,000 £4,660,000

CLASCOW

Gain t last £186,000 (poia) £81,751 (loss)

27,102,498, 54,396,840 -£1,581,905 (loss) $1,700,000 £9,822,449 £3,845,000 (loss) - 12,593,222 €1,288,206 £116,691 (lass} 44,000,000 £38,750,000 £4,300,000. (loss) Estimated: Estimated:

10,000,000 £12,000,000

X-

Solaries

and expenses

the Festival staff are,

1220

in-

Wight, in the late 60's, when Daniel Rogers persundod amused Town Council to allow him to not up one on the.sea- front.

It was so inconceivable, to them that anyone should want to pay a penny to know his weight that they gave him a sile rent free. His takings of were

costartling that

of Rogers sought permission

when

course, mounting rapidly, Last continue the next

year, the year salaries took £19,500; this Council demanded a stiff rent. Rogers refused to pay it, 177, while expenses have risen but others saw

. year they have risen to £147-

from £2,500 to £10,000.

the immense profits to. be made out of this As the day of the exhibition machine and soon they were to approaches the staff is certain be found on the promenade of

lo increase.

Various miscellaneous services every resort.. provided for the staff by other

departments-the offices, the THEN came the London dairy telephones, the typewriters, the firm enterprise of deliver- ztationery, and so on-are es-ing penny-in-the-slot milk timated to cost £50,000 this from machines fixed on the dairy

will year. No doubt that

bu doors, but In 1898 a

group of doubled

next year and re-model dwellings in Southwark Goubled the year after. Nor will boasted a much superior gadget. It was a street lamp with a standard holding about 25 tricide. of

it be possible to dismiss all the stall until the Festival is final-

ly wound up.

So what does the taxpayers' gallons of water, a bill look ike? Here Is my es-which passed over the lamp's timate-no more than an esti-Dame, became steam and was

Traffic works....... Exhibition works

mate, because the Festival staff used to boil water held in

Passers-by who maintain a clam-like silence on smaller tank.

wanted a hot drink could obtain the bui

half- £850,000 a cupful of water for a

In 6,000,000 penny in the slot. A penny

another slot added a tablet of ten or cocoa mixed. 800,000 with bugar and condensed milk, 070,000 the whole process taking about

three minutes to prepare.

Salaries, expenses,

services of other departments

Battersea Park Grants to

associated bodies like

the Arts Council and Council of Indus- trial Design

Total

500,000

on

More recently, a slot machine rallway station in Copenhagen, Denmark, gives ac- cess to a typewriter, complote. with stationery, carbon paper, £0,020,000 stamps and envelopes for a tow

small coins,

DDING in the cost of

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the E

LCC works, the Transport

earliest suppliers of tobacco from machines

240, were London coffee houses in 000 for a little scheme to im-1820. Their automats were jars

The whole building is being So the ratepayers' bill will Commission's share-and constructed on- the most come to something like this: - lavish scale: the main hall will South Banic scheme £2.073,585 prove the gardens at St. Paul's, shaped and supplied a pijes

350,000 the grand total comes to £12,ful of tobacco for a penny, scat over 3,000 people; thero Traffic works (est.)

508,505. gallery, Architectural will be an exhibition

restauranta Gealing 700 hibition (est.). two people, a spacious-central--foyer-Fun-fair.(est.)... which can be used independent- ly for receptions and dances,

The promenader

ex-

a

Issued

In my view that is an

The original coin-in-tho-slot. 100,000

machine, however, dates back 100,000 tremely conservative estimate.

Of course, some-of-this-ex-thousands-of-years--to - Hero £3,123,585 penditure will be offset by re- of Alexander, who invented

ccipts. But how much?

dovico for distributing The Battersea Park fun fab holy water when

Ave will have By footbridge: There will.

alone is expeeled to lose up to drachma piece was Inserted. be a Bailey bridge footbridge Tow much of the work, then refreshment facilities so that if over the Thames from Charing will be considered to have necessary a full orchestra of 100 WHAT do the ratepayers of £100,000. Mir Gerold Barry, the This was about 150 years, BC. North London think of this? Festival director, has already Tho first penny-in-the-slot Cross Underground and another permanent value? Mr Morrison and a choir of 250 can be fed

What do the people of Balter been careful to protect himself Insurance policia appeared in aver York Road from Waterloo Блуз: "Perhaps half", in independently.

sea think of losing three acres from criticism about heavy Germany In 1910, but American main line station (cost estimated addition, rood improvement

to Paul Sanborn was the first A further £750,000 will be of their park for the best part losses, at £130,000); an extension to

will only schemes

get the

"The expenditure," he has arrange for his policy-holdem required for the 1,700-foot con of a year? It is a splendid thing the existing Hungerford foot ordinary grant.

loo said, "should bring in divi- to pay their premiums into his hridge will cost another £28,- From this it appears that the crele river wall faced in granite for the Inhabitants of Waterloo

some 4% and the immediate neighbour- dends which, though they

may slot machines, which ratepayers may have to And which will reclaim

hood to have all these improve- never be fully assessed

a receipts. This freed him to acres of land. something like. £850.000 in all,

ments paid for by the citizens direct profit and loss account, canvas for new business. 2-By direct excalator from the taxpayers £050,000 and the Waterloo Station: (Cost of im- Transport Commission the re- Bank scheme is now put of this just the time to

So the total cost of the South of the rest of London. But is both during the Festival itself put the and in years to come, should provements ទេវ Charing Cross maining £300,000.

£2,073,505. and Waterloo will be. £150,000

work in hand? And are there justify the enterprise to the But there will be many bitter

any more schemes to come? full.

3-By ban: Buses will set Transport Commission and the passengers down in York Road, Treasury before final figures are (Two roundabout schemes and agreed. the widening of York Road to take four lines of traffic, the widening of Addington Street and other work will cost nl- together. £428,000.)

[000,"

and £300,000 'respectively.) wrangles between the LCC, the Finally, the ratepayer must

meat a major part of the cost of the "live architec.tiral exhibi- tion" in the Poplar-Stepney

arca.

of

cost-

on

the

ex-

Now consider the cost to the "Apart from the actual re- No estimates have ceipts, which we expect will be faxpayer. been published of the total cost substantial, we must also add a although large and continuing increase to the exhibition, everyone has made the usual our tourist trade which

to attract; mumbling sounds about the Festival is bound Ben scheme, the cost of THIS is planned to be a cross need for economy, pat trade, and a lift to prestige

assistance to our NOW/consider the main South which will apparently fall en-

section of a residentlat

work for the exhibition is tirely on the ratepayer, and neighbourhood containing ing £388,923 this year. Later and morale."

rushed houses, flats, shops, community the pavilions must be erected 4-By tramear, These will set which the LCC have down passengers in Westminster forward to meet the wishes of centre, nursery schools. "street and stalled, the exhibits must OME of these claims do not

furniture" (whatever that may be designed, constructed, col- So stand up to examination. Bridge Road, Waterloo Road the Government. and Lambeth Palace Road, (Re-This consists of the Concert be), open spaces, light Industry, lected and arranged. And ade- In July the Secretary for and perhaps a church and pub, quale publicity must be given overseas Trade was asked what siting of tramway round the Hall, and the River Wall

Increase in foreign visitors to roundabout, £40,000).

This will mostly comprise to the Festival,

Then there is the cost of the thin country was likely to ra-

exhibition in 1991.

000.

The Concert Hall was original. ly estimated to cost £1,200,000.

this.

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5. By car: Thirleen parking But only six months after the normal. LCC housing activities: two travelling exhibitions; the sult from the holding of the places for some 4,000 cars will LCC had passed the original but considerable extra expense be provided at a cost of £300,- estimates they were raised by will be involved in preparing aircraft carrier Campania will £673,685 a threatening 1h the exhibition on time and also probably be converted Into a

floating exhibition, although Mr Bottomley replied that the tration of the manner in which in making special contracts for there is still some doubt about total of overseas visitors may 6. By coach: Visitors will not the estimates for work of this half-completed houses,

reach the 700,000 mark by 1951, be allowed near the Exhibition kind spiral upwards.

Why a half-completed house Arrangements for the recep- compared with just over 500,000 In coaches, but a special eight Even the present total of should be considered more alive tion of the travelling exhibitions in 1948, nere parking space, with re- £1,933,585 - does not represent than one which is occupied is must be made in all the cities But the Travel. Association freshment facilities, is being the final cost of the Concert something which only the Fes- which they will visit.

have already estimated that provided near the Tube station. Hall, as there is still a smaller fivad staff can answer.

There is the cost of the science 560,000 overseas visitors will at Clapham Common. Another hall to be bullt. The work now

exhibition in Kensington, and come here this year. Since a coach park may be provided being put in hand for comple- The ratepayer will also pay the technology: exhibition In further natural increase; would north of the Thames, (Cost up- tion by 1951 in fact represents for some part of the Festival Glasgow These will all require be expected in 1950 and 1931, it known)

only five-sixths of the whole, fun fair in Batterson Park. several millions more.

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